SpokenWord Paris

Moe will read from his recently published 5th collection We Want Everything and from his new erotic collection I Wanna Make Jazz To You and from new poems created in recent weeks. Critics review of Seager’s recent book We Want Everything, Onslaught press, Oxford, U.K; 2016. “From its title to the ruminating final free verse  “Perhaps” these are not poems to be presented at wine and cheese parties. What Moe Seager’s creations are is a way into a way out, artful, and consciously artless simultaneously, socially engaging conversational, erotic, egalitarian, and quite musical.Read these poems aloud for maximum effect, unwrap them, chew on them, embrace them, lock horns with them, but ultimately feel them. if you have a soul you will relish this collection, if you have no soul open this book immediately.” Danny Shot, Publisher and editor of the Long Shot Literary Arts Review, Poet- -in- residence Hoboken Museum of Art.

Maysan Nasser is a Psychology and Theater student. She recently won Beirut’s first Poetry Slam and will compete in Roundhouse Poetry Slam in London this summer. She has taken part of the literary scene in Paris and partook in Paris Lit Up’s Grand Tour in Italy and 100 Thoudand Poets for Change and a few other independent performances at different venues. She was first published by Remus, the American University of Rome’s literary journal, which featured two of her prose poems. Her journalistic work has also been published by the American University of Paris’s newspaper, the Peacock Plume, where she is currently a videojournalist. She recently staged a performance of her original play titled Deadline.

Nov.14th SEXUAL HARASSMENT — Maysan Nasser
Nov.21st TELLIN’ IT LIKE IT IS — Moe Seager
Nov.28th MEANING/MEANINGFUL — Philip Meersman

If you have a great idea for a theme, tell Antonia on Monday at SpokenWord.

Cheers all,
David Barnes

Open Secret! 2nite @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 5è.
At 8pm, open mic sign-up opens, & at 9 le spectacle!
Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4).
This Wednesday’s special guest performer: Didier Cornevin!
Our theme, in his honor, is Baudelaire’s “L’Invitation au Voyage.” (see FB invite below)

Tonight’s guest, Didier, transforms classic (yet still fresh) French poetry into song, such as “L’Invitation au Voyage,” plus works from Rimbaud & Verlaine ~ as well as writing & interpreting Francophone chanson. Didier is a dignified & well-loved regular at Open Secret, & performs both beautifully & powerfully…hope to see you there! 🙂

Open Secret! A SpokenWord Paris open mic, 2nite & every Wednesday underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, in the 5th. 8pm sign-up starts, & at 9 le spectacle…Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4). Your own personal lab for experimental writing, song, comedy, performance art, theater, dance & as-you-like-it! 🙂

Our theme this Wednesday is “Walking Around.” Yes, the great Neruda poem. Our featured poet is that grand, hilarious Italian gentleman who writes/recites in French, Eduardo Pisani: “Le poète Eduardo Pisani, candidat pour la deuxième fois cette annèe à l’Académie Française. Blog: http://lespoemestoutnus.canalblog.com/. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbORUn32aUc“

Open Secret! Experimental open mic, Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, Paris 5è.  8pm sign-up starts, & 9 the show ~ Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4). Innovative writing, song, comedy, performance art, theater & more…The theme this week is “Enter the mirror.” Featured act tonight ~ Dareka Daremo & the Ellipses Condition! Melding poetry, music & dance…

Dareka’s bio:
Dareka has performed his poetry since 2005, in France, the US, and everywhere his feet can land on (thus mostly in Europe). He hosted for two years the popular Paris poetry night, “Slam au Downtown” and creates poetry projects with musicians or dancers. He has given workshops in places such as Casablanca & Boston, and even found himself representing France at the London Poetry Olympics. To sum up, his poems are metamorphic animals, and he’s a zoo keeper in hell.

Bio for The Ellipses Condition:
we play.
we jazz.
everything else is …

A former Mad Man (he was a copywriter for various french Ad agencies), David Azencot is now a stand up comedian and author. He has worked for french TV (Le Dezapping du Before sur Canal Plus, “En Famille” on M6, “Docteur CAC” on France 5) and is currently a radio host on Europe 1 with Anne Roumanoff.

His new show, “Flammable”, is about politics, terrorism, environment and mass extinction. So it’s kind of a hit with kids.He performs every wednesday in french at La Nouvelle Seine, which is a riverboat parked near Notre Dame, so you can’t really miss it.  He also performs regularly in english, though he tends to make puns no one understands.

The Ellipses Condition is… the partnered artistry of Pearlann Porter and John Lambert, sharing a commitment to the authentic translation of their inner thoughts and emotions into dance, music and words. Their improvisitions blur the dynamics between movement, musicality and poetry, embodying the philosophy of jazz as a verb lived in every aspect of being. Collaboratively they cultivate new audio/physical relationships, lending living bodies to intangible conversations.

Porter has been the Founding Artistic Director of The Pillow Project and a professor of improvisational dance at Point Park University for the past thirteen years. Lambert has been a professional musician and performing poet in New Orleans and Pittsburgh for over a decade. Together they co-curate and direct The Space Upstairs as lead Resident Artists with a combined 20+ years of experience both locally and internationally creating spontaneous performances, installations and intensive improvisational studies.